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Once on the forefront for the fight to decriminalise Section 377 of the IPC, which effectively rendered consensual homosexual acts illegal, senior lawyers Menaka Guruswamy and Arundhati Katju, have come out on international media as a couple. In the said interview, the two advocates that the 2018 victory was not just limited to the professional sphere but also marked a personal win.

In 2013, the apex court had rejected their pleas to decriminalise Section 377 in 2013. “The loss in 2013 was a loss as lawyers, a loss as citizens. It was a personal loss,” said Guruswamy in the interview, since the Supreme Court had upheld the criminalisation of Section 377 after it was decriminalised by Delhi High Court in 2009.

Guruswamy also mentioned that the governments of post-colonial countries need to understand that the anti-sodomy laws were not our laws. The couple hopes that the verdict in India will act as a beacon for other countries that still have anti-gay laws to open up channels for reform.

After the landmark judgement of 2018, both the lawyers earned global recognition and were also named by TIME magazine in their list of 100 most influential people of 2019.

Soon after the said interview was posted on social media, Katju shared a photo of her with Guruswamy in court as part of the #SareeTwitter challenge that has been going viral on social media and requires one to post pictures of themselves in a saree.